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Whilst trekking about with the pinhole camera, we took some more conventional gear along. The Bronica SQ-A, loaded with Fuji Acros 100, was used along with the 80mm f/2.8 Zenzanon PS and the 110mm f/4.5 Zenzanon PS 1:1 Macro lenses.
The crane featured in the first twelve images, is just about in the middle of Boyertown, PA. It dates from 1925 and has been preserved as a historic artifact. There was once a freight station and a small freight yard at this spot. The vertical column is made from sections that profile as portions of a circle with flanges. Multiples of these pieces are riveted together via the flanges to produce a tubular length with a circular cross-section and a series of radial ribs around the outside. This was a common design by the Phoenix Iron Company, a short ways from here (Phoenixville, PA) and Ye Olde Photographer got warm fuzzies when he spied the Phoenix Iron brand embossed in the steel.
Boyertown had a carriage works, auto and truck body company and a casket manufacturer over the years, so this likely played a role in facilitating deliveries and shipments for any or all of those industries.
Following the crane shots are a series of the former power plant that supplied electricity and heat to the Pennhurst State School & Hospital, an institution for people with various disabilities, established in the very early 1900s. In its later years, Pennhurst was the subject of some controversy and lawsuits which hastened its closure. Various efforts to redevelop the site have been mounted but not overly successful. Pictures of the main campus buildings may be seen at the Opacity website; most of the campus is not legally accessible today.
The last three shots are in Ye Olde Photographer's back yard, finishing off the second roll of film using his somewhat underutilized Bronica Zenzanon macro lens.